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Donald Kirk

Battling for glory in England

The tension was building for days. Commentators of all political stripes were writing that the English, divided between right and left, liberals and conservatives, haves and have-nots, upper and middle and lower classes, were coming together at last. The unifying force: a game of soccer, or football, between the English and Italians for Euro Cup 2020.

2021-07-15 17:05

Shifting priorities

WASHINGTON - The news from Afghanistan is not good, but what did anyone expect? As the U.S. and other NATO forces withdraw, the Taliban are attacking, killing enemies, taking over the country, including stockpiles of U.S. supplies provided for Afghan government forces.

2021-07-01 17:05

Fantasizing peace on Jeju

The search for peace and reconciliation between North and South Korea burns bright in one province of South Korea that endured far more suffering than other regions before the Korean War had even begun.

2021-06-17 17:05

Memorializing Vietnam, Korean wars

WASHINGTON - A gentle wind on a sunny day created the perfect atmosphere for visiting monuments on the Mall, honoring America's war dead on its Memorial Day, which is the last day of May.

2021-06-03 17:26

Deals at Korea-US summit

WASHINGTON - It's time for a reality check on North Korea. No, I'm not suggesting we come to our senses about Kim Jong-un and his nuclear program and try to bludgeon him into “denuclearization.” We all know he's not giving up on the program on which he's staked the pride of his fiefdom and dynasty. Nobody is even talking up that fantasy.

2021-05-20 16:40

Just another Korea-US summit

WASHINGTON - The flurry of rhetoric from Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington bears out one of the great verities of the perpetual North-South Korean confrontation: the more things change, the more they stay the same. Or, more simply, same-old, same-old.

2021-05-06 17:42

Afghanistan and South Korea

WASHINGTON - The impending withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan carries significant implications for Korea. No one surrounding President Joe Biden is talking about pulling America's 28,500 troops from South Korea, or even cutting the numbers down somewhat, but you have to wonder if that thought is on their minds.The reasoning is sim

2021-04-22 17:46

First Suga, then Moon

WASHINGTON - U.S. policymakers are doing a delicate dance with their counterparts in Tokyo and Seoul. On April 16, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will call on President Joe Biden at the White House, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in should be next in line. For the Americans, the challenge is to persuade them to bury their differences for the sake of trilateral cooperation against China and North Korea.

2021-04-08 17:26

Mass killings, big and small

Stop the horror. Those are the first words that come to mind when we think of the latest two mass shootings in the U.S. in recent days and then North Korea's first missile tests of the Biden presidency.

2021-03-25 17:48

Playing games with war games

South Korea is putting out one the crazier pleas in the history of warfare. They're saying to the North Koreans, in effect, please don't mind if we play war games with your enemy the Americans, no hard feelings, doesn't mean a thing, they're making us do it.

2021-03-11 16:20

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